Kurkdjian creates bubble installation sans fizzy lifting drinks

Or something like that. The haute perfumer Maison Francis Kurkdjian is going to set Great Marlborough Street afloat tomorrow in partnership with Liberty of London with a bubble fest not seen since the likes of Wonka. However, Kurkdjian's bubbles smells of lovely fragrance as the man was once perfumer to labels like Aqua di Parma, Gaultier and Armani.

The scent of choice for said bubbles? Aqua Universalis, a clean scent with notes of bergamot, lemon, lily of the valley and musky wood. Let's hope it can compete with the puffs of food-scented smog that funnel out of surrounding restos. From 1pm to 8pm, Saturday, December 5th, the bubble installation will happen every hour. Kurkdjian is known in France for his bubble installation and last staged one at Versailles (how Marie Antoinette must be turning in her grave to miss such a spectacle). 

Beauty giveaway: Ormonde Jayne Essential Bathing Oil

WHAT | 3 lucky Beauty Woo Me readers will receive a bottle of Essential Bathing Oil (n the scent of your choosing: Orris Noir, Champaca, Osmanthus, Tolu, Ta’if, Ormonde Woman, Frangipani or Sampaquita) from the luxurious, quintessentially London perfumer Ormonde Jayne.

HOW | It's a free prize draw! Simply enter your email and name HERE, hit submit et... voila! You are entered for a chance to win one of 3 prizes. There's nothing to it (and we aren't sharing your information with any third parties). Naughty or nice? No matter... Only luck matters in this festive giveaway!

DEADLINE | Prize draw closes December 14, 2009. Winners will be emailed directly by December 15, 2009.

WHY | Beauty Woo Me and Ormonde Jayne simply want start the festive season started off right... with beautiful fragrance, plump skin and a warm bath.

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The Beauty Woo Me edit from Ormonde Jayne |  Frangipani (no brainer), Ormonde Woman (with black hemlock, this is as exotic and femme fatale as a fragrance can possibly be) and Orris Noir... we've been known to leave the house swathed in a gentle cloud of Zizan or Ormonde Man from time to time as well.

Concrete evidence of nouveau Brutalism with Alexa Lixfeld

Both Dezeen and The Dieline featured Alexa Lixfeld's wonderuously Brutalist bottle designs this week. How I love a bit of concrete (Corbusier would be so proud)! And it's amazing how much better Brutalism seems to work on a small scale. These bottles are interesting... so textural. The equal ratio of concrete to glass makes this item light and beautiful... not too heavy or dark. Sadly the same can't be said for the post WWII building effort in London. 

No doubt, bigger brands will be snapping up this creative wonder soon.